Coal Black Rose
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coal-black-rose-314-9221730
title:
Coal Black Rose
text:
"Coal Black Rose" is a folk song, one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface. The man dressed as an overweight and overdressed black woman, who was found unattractive and masculine-looking. The song was first performed in the United States in the late 1820s, possibly by George Washington Dixon. It was certainly Dixon who popularized the song when he put on three blackface performances at the Bowery Theatre, the Chatham Garden Theatre, and the Park Theatre in late July 1829. These
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Folk song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Black_Rose
date created:
date modified:
2023-10-20T07:27:15Z
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13
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